COMMUNITIESOFPRACTICE. Our world is getting more complex as everything gets connected. Knowledge-sharing and narration of work make implicit knowledge more visible, especially in distributed work teams. Learning is part of work, not separate from it.

practicecommunitiesofpractice The idea that learning involves a deepening process of participation in a communityofpractice has gained significant ground in recent years. Communitiesofpractice have also become an important focus within organizational development and have considerable value when thinking about working with groups. in artificial intelligence from the University of California at Irvine. (He

Knowledge management is a mixture of explicit and implicit knowledge sharing. Is it how-to knowledge, like a trade secret formula, or is it certain practices and norms that define the culture? To be effective, knowledge management has to be part of the workflow.

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick. I am finally getting the rest of the series up. Many people get worried about making sure their group is a CoP. In our first post on CommunitiesofPractice (CoPs) we disabused ourselves of the confusion between a community and the platform that allows a community to interact together online. Is a team a CoP? That is one thing CoPs can do. MORE >>

A great series of articles well-worth the time to read if you are interested in CommunitiesofPractice: CommunitiesofPractice (CoPs). CoP Series #2: What the heck is a Domain and why should I care? CoP Series #3: Community - without people? CoP Series #4: Practice Makes Perfect. CoP Series #5: Is my community a communityofpractice? Team-based communities. MORE >>

I mentioned a while back I was guest blogging on Darren Sidnick’s blog on communitiesofpractice with an emphasis on the current interests of folks at his company, UFI Learndirect. Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology: CommunitiesofPractice (CoPs) with Nancy White. CommunitiesofPractice (CoPs) with Nancy White. Darren wrote: This is a series of blogs on CommunitiesofPractice (CoP). MORE >>

I’m reviewing my resources on communitiesofpractice and synthesizing some of the articles I’ve come across and added to my social bookmarks or blogged about on my Communities Thread. One of the best sources ofpractical knowledge on online community building is Anecdote from Australia. In Building a Collaborative Workplace , they discuss three types of collaboration - Team, Community and Network. MORE >>

But communications have changed that, as we move into the network era, a move that had its foreshadowing with the invention of the printing press, and has been accelerating with every electronic medium invented since. ” Modern democracy first appeared in the West only because the West was the first part of the world to develop mass communications. Neither are the more sophisticated control methods of institutions and those of markets. Learning is connecting. MORE >>